| Alfred John Church - 1896 - 240 sayfa
...side, so that the fire, having nothing that it could devour, might die out. And what did he answer. ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." And so all that... | |
| Max John Christian Meiklejohn - 1898 - 292 sayfa
...silly man '), in Cannon Street, ' like a man spent, with a handkerchief round his neck,' and crying like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me.' Nobody tried for some time to quench the fire ; the aim of every man was to save his own goods and... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 sayfa
...Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
| Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 sayfa
...Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
| Frederic Morell Holmes - 1899 - 200 sayfa
...a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message [to pull down houses before the fire] he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent : people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' " This is a... | |
| 1899 - 574 sayfa
...about ' with a handkercher about his neck, cried out like a fainting woman to the king's message — Lord what can I do, I am spent, people will not obey me, I have been pulling down houses but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it ! ' It was evident... | |
| Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 sayfa
...Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
| 1901 - 660 sayfa
...Canning-street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed... | |
| Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 sayfa
...Cannon Street like a man spent, with a handkerchief about his neck. To the King's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent ', people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses ; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can doit;' that he needed... | |
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